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[Tribes 3: Rivals] Early access launched too early
Zek
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2687970/TRIBES_3_Rivals/
Tribes 3: Rivals is a real deal new Tribes game, coming from Prophecy Games, a subsidiary of Hi-Rez. Not a lot is known about it, but the devs are active on Discord and will be holding public tests: https://discord.gg/eECYyqPu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9bvc1RyeME
Tribes 3: Rivals is a real deal new Tribes game, coming from Prophecy Games, a subsidiary of Hi-Rez. Not a lot is known about it, but the devs are active on Discord and will be holding public tests: https://discord.gg/eECYyqPu
- Dynamic Movement: Jetpack flight and skiing allow unparalleled freedom and fluidity in movement across the battlefield.
- Capture the Flag: The core of the game lies in its intense team based capture-the-flag mode, demanding individual skill along with strategic team play.
- Stunning Environments: Navigate beautiful and complex maps from arid deserts to icy mountains, each designed to offer a different gameplay experience.
- Loadout Customization: Tailor your character with a wide array of weapons, skins, perks, and abilities, offering endless ways to compete and strategize.
- Class Based Gameplay: Light, medium, and heavy classes allow you to play your way. Light classes excel in speed, medium classes offer mobility and firepower, and heavy classes bring formidable armor and weapons to the fray.
- Custom Matches, Modes, and UGC: Users will be able to create custom matches that offer different team sizes and weapon loadouts, custom modes that alter the game’s core physics such as gravity and player speed, and generate their own content such as customized maps and environments.
- Community Focused Development: The game is crafted with input from the TRIBES community, ensuring an experience that honors the series' legacy while introducing fresh elements to keep gameplay exciting and engaging.
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please dont fuck this up again, hirez
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I would love for it to be awesome! But that stuff + Hi Rez's obsession with competitive/MOBA stuff has me being pretty cautious on this one.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
They may well make that the competitive focus, but Tribes would be a weird franchise to hard limit to 5v5 because that necessarily puts a limit on franchise staples like large maps and vehicles. I expect there'll be modes with more players.
please be good please be good
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1231210/Midair_2/
Looks like you pick up playtest keys through a discord bot from there.
Midair still exists too.
I am unenthused about Hi-rez anything.
Like, the video above looks very pretty, and has the right physics.
But I'm betting they will monetise the loadouts again, ruining the game utterly.
The actual cardinal sin of Ascend was regenerating health, and I can't see that in the video above.
So maybe they've got it right this time..
Can't remember if the flag bearers regened in Ascend (probably not?), and they're the only ones that aren't chipped long enough to potentially Regen.
But most everyone seemed to be starting with chip damage, so..
Locking the disc launcher behind microtransactions was pretty frustrating though, but not game breaking.
Please give me my wish.
Your forcefields cannot stop the chonk.
The heavier you are the harder you are to stop skiing.
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no no, no need to beat around the bush, their monetization scheme for ascend was utterly fucking batshit.... they priced it out like every loadout was a moba champ
the demo footage looks pretty barebones to me.. like yeah there's a spinfusor and a chaingun with a patently absurd ammo counter LCD display (is design just dead now?), but low player count and a simple looking map
i would like to see the dream of tribes 2 fully realized, a slower more tactical game, but i recognize thats probably never going to happen without mods
the only other thing i'd really like to see out of this is the death of independent server lists... i used to think this was a lost treasure of a bygone era but one of my favorite games, Hell Let Loose, still uses this server setup and its easily the fucking worst thing in the game.
i just want a button that says "Play Now", fuck all this clan server bullshit
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This is good.
So long as you're not running front to back.
Watching the video above, where they were doing solely that, was more annoying than I'd like to admit.
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no other details on the site
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im really happy they're moving straight to this instead of making me suffer in anticipation for 2 years like all the other tribes releases
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overall pretty stable and ran ok for an alpha. a little bit of awkward lag during high action moments but overall not bad considering how early things are
interesting tribes-y tidbits
sniper is only available on medium armor
medium armor in general has a pretty great kit (tribes designers historically DESPERATE to make medium armor relevant), the medium-only grenade launcher is berserk.... like if you guys remember ultra renegades...... yeah
chaingun is only available on heavy and seems to be meant for some sort of HoF option
flag hitboxes are currently massive so HoF doesn't really feel possible, you have to be in the same zipcode as the flag and you pick it up
there are vehicle models laying around the maps but no controllable vehicles, but maybe a hint at what is to come.... its a wheeled ground vehicle that looks kind of like a tank
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Is that not the way usernames were intended?
Multiple levels linked by a single jump pad shaft, but open to the outside on all levels too. The jump pad was annoying to deal with and raining death from above means keeping the generator up is damn near impossible.
I'd love the repair torch to be just a thing you can do instead of an item pick too.
Bit different if the gen is down for a while and people don't need to go past the pack to repair whilst in standard outfit though.
Maybe just let people spawn in with the repair pack even when the gen is down.
Literally the most obvious place to put them but BOOM can't BOOM be BOOM bothered to check. haha
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
In fairness, it's almost been long enough since Tribes was a big thing that people who played it when it was popular could've had their own kid and the kid could've gone to college and graduated and gotten a job working on this game.
Let me shake my fist at the guy with a jetpack in the cloud.
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so when I see 5000 people in the discord im like... these are the last dads left who are still playing shooters...
which also raises the question of why they seem to be angling to "esports" the format with a 5v5 ranked mode for an audience whose average age must be like 37 or something
its still an alpha, still very early. i hope they do something to wow me
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Yup you disk the flag as you are coming in hot is the tribes way.
While you're not wrong, i still feel called out and attacked
The reception so far appears terrible. It sounds like my fears of focusing on e-sportsey small matches were all too accurate and there just are no big vehicle-ey maps to make it feel like Tribes yet.
It's early access but that feels like begging for the game's community to die out entirely before it ever makes it to 1.0.
Note that they *charge* for these AI-generated banners. Also according to reviews all the game modes except CTF might be gone? The beta had bombing run and a dog-tag like mode.
Seems it's going to fizzle on launch. Shame.